Long-time Seattle activist Marsha Botzer is optimistic about the future. Recently named one of five National Co-Chairs of Obama Pride, the LGBT arm of Barack Obama's national campaign, Botzer looks forward to the November election.

"With politics you are often disappointed," she says, "but in my lifetime in pmore --------------------------------------------------

Gov. Christine Gregoire mounted a spirited defense of her first term in office before an enthusiastic crowd of 250 people at the GSBA's Candidate Forum this past Wednesday. "We've done amazing things in these four years. I couldn't be more proud of what we've done," she said. more--------------------------------------------------

Several political pundits this week say the 2008 Republican National Convention launched a second "cultural war," but it is unclear, as yet, just how much a target the LGBT community will be this time around.

Gays were a considerable focus of the first "cultural war." It was lamore --------------------------------------------------

The findings appear in a new study which reveals how the personalities of people in the USA often differ according to the state in which they live. Washington was one of the five highest-scoring states for "openmore --------------------------------------------------

The news August 27 that pioneer Lesbian activist Del Martin had died came as a shock. Not because she wasn't old; at 87, she was. But because she and her partner Phyllis Lyon have been creative forces in the Gay liberation and women's movements during all of my own long activist life - andmore --------------------------------------------------

Outside of liberal metropolitan centers like Seattle, Queers are often kept in the closet by fears of rejection and attack by family members, friends, and society in general. With Queer invisibility acting as such a strong force of oppression, one of the most radical and affirming acts thatmore --------------------------------------------------

International News Australian government
introduces partnership bill
Australia's federal government introduced a bill in Parliament on September 4 to extend spousal rights to same-sex de facto couples in areas such as health care, taxation, public benefits, veterans' affairs, workers' compensation and educational assistance.

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National News

National NewsGay leader
Matt Foreman marries
The former head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Matt Foreman, and longtime partner Francisco Adex De León got married August 31 in San Francisco, where Foreman now works as director of Gay and immigrant rights for the Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund.

First, John McCain threw good sense to the wind and tapped Sarah Palin as his running mate, even though she is untested and astonishingly unqualified to be one septuagenarian heartbeat away from the premore
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The first thing that struck me about the Republican National Convention in St. Paul was the stunning lack of diversity. Only the GOP is capable of making Minnesota whiter. Into this cocoon of Caucasians stepped the ultra-pale John McCain and his moose-whacking VP, Sarah Palin, who togemore
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Idaho ACLU settles with library over Joy of Gay Sex
The Nampa Public Library Board of Trustees and the American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho announced Monday a resolution that avoids a lawsuit and restores two books in the Nampa Library to the public stacks.

A policy decision by the Library Board on June 2, 2008 placed the New Joy of Sex and the Joy of Gay Sex in the director'more-------